by Sarah | Jul 4, 2011 | All About Molly
[flickr id=”5885701216″ thumbnail=”medium” overlay=”true” size=”small” group=”” align=”left”] Let us live for the beauty of our own reality. ~Charles Lamb
Different.
Standing outside, wanting to get in.
Pure of heart.
Sharpest mind I’ve ever seen.
He alone is an acute observer, who can observe minutely without being observed. ~Johann Kaspar Lavater
Seeing the world differently.
Looking in gives unique perspective.
Knowing before she can express her knowledge.
Missing nothing.
Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved. ~Thucydides
She doesn’t love on sight.
Affection is withheld.
Until you are in.
Known.
On her terms she lets you in.
And once she hugs you.
Holds you tight and kisses you.
Places her trust in her knowledge of you.
There is no better hug.
No fiercer love.
No brighter star.
by Sarah | Jul 3, 2011 | Photography, Weekly Winners
All taken w/ Canon Rebel XS.
Finally dusted off my camera this week. On top of the Photo Shoot I did with my kids, I took a few other pictures. So this is a random collection w/ no real theme this week.
The fountain of beauty is the heart, and every generous thought illustrates the walls of your chamber. ~Francis Quarles
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Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. ~William Wordsworth
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Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and our purpose in life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude. ~Alfred North Whitehead
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Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear. ~William Shakespeare
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Water is life’s matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water. ~Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
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That is the road we all have to take – the Bridge of Sighs into eternity. ~Soren Kierkegaard
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He is a wise man who invented beer. ~Plato
(alternately titled Redneck Still Life)
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Too low they build who build below the skies. ~Edward Young
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by Sarah | Jul 2, 2011 | All About Kennedy
[flickr id=”5883282550″ thumbnail=”small” overlay=”true” size=”small” group=”” align=”left”] Neither love nor fire can subsist without perpetual motion; both cease to live so soon as they cease to hope, or to fear. ~François de la Rochefoucauld
She is never still.
My Angel.
Always in motion, even at rest.
Curious about everything.
Has to touch it, feel it, question it, learn it.
The world is but a canvas to our imaginations. ~Henry David Thoreau
She sees the world with bright eyes.
Hears music no one else hears.
Sings songs of her own workings.
Finds fun and life in nothing more than a rock.
A tomboy, and a princess, all wrapped into one.
Child of the pure, unclouded brow And dreaming eyes of wonder! Though time be fleet and I and thou Are half a life asunder, Thy loving smile will surely hail The love-gift of a fairy tale. ~Lewis Carroll
She loves with all her heart.
And can melt yours with a smile.
Or one look of her big brown eyes.
A Daddy’s Girl.
My precious Angel.
A sample of the purest love. Unconditional love.
Our Angel.
by Sarah | Jul 1, 2011 | Photography
During this past week I took the kids out for a some photo-shooting. It’s been about 2 years since our last one and with the exception of the “too good for photos” teen issues and one little girl getting hit in the face w/ our truck hatch…I think we met with pretty good success. These are some of my absolute favorites.
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by Sarah | Jun 28, 2011 | All About Denver, All About Kennedy, Cystic Fibrosis, Special Needs
Today we met with the genetics counselor.
We left with nothing.
Nothing new.
The suggestion that a grad student may want to write a paper on our freakish family to be published in a medical journal.
We’re weird.
The science cannot explain the CF abnormalities in our family.
The only thing ‘new’ we learned was the specific genetic defects on Angel & Brandon’s CFTR gene. We have names for their CF.
But no more answers.
And so we soldier on.
With CF diagnoses that have no solid genetic confirmations.
With treatments for a disease that is “Atypical”.
We wait and see if one day our freak family will be put on parade in the hope of ‘helping’ the scientific community.
We wait and see how mild or active the weirdness of CF becomes for our kids.
We wait for nothing to change.
We wait for everything to change.
We wait.
by Sarah | Jun 26, 2011 | Photography, Weekly Winners
All taken w/ Canon Rebel XS or Canon Rebel XTi.
I failed to use my camera this week…so I thought I’d go back and find my favorites so far for 2011. Trying to keep the list small is my biggest challenge ;).
The courage to imagine otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life. ~Daniel J. Boorstin
Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness. ~Blaise Pascal
We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
One day You will take my heart completely and make it more fiery than a dragon. Your eyelashes will write on my heart the poem that could never come from the pen of a poet. ~Jalal ad-Din Rumi
In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans. ~Kahlil Gibran
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. ~Mahatma Gandhi
Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray. ~Lord Byron
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery. ~Joseph Conrad
You can find more pictures over at my flickr account.
That’s all for this week. Head on over to Lotus‘ digs to see more!!
